From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 26 15:37:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27043 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:37:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw-line-44.fwi.com [209.84.172.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27038 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us [10.23.42.2]) by catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27858 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:36:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA03393; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:36:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why p5- ports are good References: <199809252032.NAA13244@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <199809262101.XAA25857@lion.plab.ku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 26 Sep 1998 17:36:16 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Anton Berezin's message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:01:28 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: <86g1deo61r.fsf_-_@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.36/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anton Berezin writes: > Probably I missing something very much, but I cannot help wondering > why on earth FreeBSD ports collection has such an _enormous_ amount of > p5-thingy ports? The p5- ports are nice to have around because: There are a few that really do need patching. It allows dependencies to be installed automatically. In addition to the p5- ports that depend on other p5- ports, we've got p5- ports that depend on other ports, and vice versa. Pkg_delete works. The uninstall target that perl's MakeMaker module writes doesn't. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message